ZRyser

bluefire1 said:

I just want Apple to continue to hire the best and the brightest. Period.

Exactly. And if 95% of them are e.g. Asian women (substitute any other gender-ethnicity combination), why should it matter?

dasanman69 said:

apple ][ said:

Somebody should make a movie where all white people on the planet gets wiped out by a mysterious disease hundreds of years ago, and white people just go extinct, they disappear. We would get to see what the planet would look like today without all of the contributions made to mankind by white people, including technology, medicine, political, human rights, and so on, and so on.

It wouldn't be a pretty picture, I can guarantee you that! And you sure as hell wouldn't be sitting here typing on your computer right now, if you lived in such a world.

It'd be a world free of misery. Of non oppressed people. We wouldn't need medicine to cure us of the ills created by white people. No engineered food. 

No killing of indigenous people with smallpox, nor plying them with alcohol or opium to incapacitate them. 

Need I go on? That would be a great movie. 

You need not. You've already proven beyond any doubt, that you are a racist. 

Trivia time
Q: Does it still count for racism, if the object of hatred are whites?
A: Yes, it does. 

Free of misery? Non oppressed people? Let me laugh real hard. Answer the following:

How are whites responsible for muslim Arabs in Egypt, Syria etc. systematically oppressing their coptic Christian countrymen?
How are the whites responsible for ISIS in Syria murdering the Jazidi people ant turning their women to sex slaves?
How are whites responsible for the Chinese government oppressing the Falun Gong, Tibetans and the nomads in the north (stealing their land and forcing them to move to cities)?
How are the whites responsible for the fact n-th generation of Korean immigrants are still being treated poorly in civilised Japan?
And I guess the whites are also responsible for the fact, that Khmer Rouge in Cambodia decimated one quarter of their own nation, right?
The whites are also surely responsible for the atrocious horrors committed by the Japanese on Chinese and Koreans during WW2, right? 
And I guess the whites are to blame for the Cultural Revolution in China and the milions of deaths it costed. 

The whites have caused an awful lot of oppression and suffering. But by far not all of it. Claiming the world would be oppression free without the whites is an utter lunacy. And racism. 

singularity said:

ZRyser said:

Promotion of diversity and gender equality is fine, but the thing with the water pistol is perhaps driven a tad too far.

Why? Most of the civilised world doesn't have the suicide death cult worship that to outsiders americans have with guns. Maybe Apple wanted to try and help the move away from that?

I don't see any damage in having that emoji available. There's always the option of not using it. And I don't see much correlation between a suicide death cult worship propagation and a gun emoji either. That seems a bit far fetched. Besides, a water pistol is still a pistol look-alike, it still hints at the real firearm, so why bother with this reshuffle at all. Seems like a half-baked appeasing gesture to me.

Promotion of diversity and gender equality is fine, but the thing with the water pistol is perhaps driven a tad too far.

bloodshotrollin'red said:

White men have earned their trashing.

That's pure racist nonsense and collective guilt label. You take the guilt of some and brand the whole ethnicity with it. You sound exactly like that German (in fact Austrian) guy ... what was his name again?